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<font size=4>Soteria: From Madness to Deliverance</font>
Loren Mosher, Voyce Hendrix with Deborah C. Fort

<img align=left src=http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL438/8397669/15643275/238243500.jpg>This book is the story, told by Loren R. Mosher, M.D., Voyce Hendrix, LCSW, and Deborah C. Fort, Ph.D., of a special time, space, and place where young people diagnosed as "schizophrenic" found a social environment where they were related to, listened to, and understood during their altered states of consciousness. Rarely, and only with consent, did these distressed and distressing persons take "tranquilizers." They lived in a home in a California suburb with nonmedical caregivers whose goal was not to "do to" them but to "be with" them.

The place was called "Soteria" (Greek for deliverance), and there, for not much money, most recovered. Although Soteria's approach was swept away by conventional drug-oriented psychiatry, its humanistic orientation still has broad appeal to those who find the mental health mainstream limited in both theory and practice. This book recounts a noble experiment to alleviate oppression and suffering without destroying their victims.

The results of the Soteria Project sounded a thunderclap throughout the field in the 1970s. They completely and permanently changed my view of how to practice psychiatry. The passage of time has only increased the importance of these findings and endorsed their validity.

-- Dr. Richard Warner


Source: Soteria

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Related Resources
[*] Still Crazy After All These Years
[*] Mosher's Letter of Resignation from the American Psychiatric Association
[*] Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychosis
[*] Soteria - Bern [PDF File]